Getting generated obj width

Getting generated obj width

Hi all,
I'm new to the forums, yet not new to jQuery. Still, I never had to get properties from objects generated on-the-fly, till now.
I have a pager generated by cycle plugin, for each slide, a button is created, and the container of those buttons is enlarged. The amount of slides is determined by the user, so can't specify a default or maximum width.
When I examine the object with firebug, I get the full width, including the generated pager buttons.
But my script keeps on getting 0 as width, which is the width of the element when the page loads.

Anyway, is there a way around this?
In case I haven't explained myself well, say it and maybe I can paste the code.

Thanks in advance